Felony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A felony is a serious crime in the United States and previously other common law countries. The term originates from English common law where felonies were originally crimes which involved the confi...
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There is specific statutory language providing that the federal criminal firearms possession does not apply to individuals who have had their civil rights restored by the state in which they where convicted of the felony. ... Every state has its own process for felons to petition the government to restore their civil rights.
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(For state-by-state details, see Civil Disabilities of Convicted Felons: A State-by- State Survey, United States Department of Justice, Office of the Pardon Attorney (October 1992).) This all begs the obvious question of what civil rights are lost by a person who suffers a federal felony conviction.
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SB 998 - Section 494.425, RSMo, provides that a convicted felon is disqualified from serving as a juror, "unless his civil rights have been restored." Elsewhere in state law, all convicted felons are disqualified from jury service, without exception.
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In 1998, the Florida legislature enacted a statute that required the Division of Elections to contract with a private entity to purge its voter file of deceased persons, duplicate registrants, individuals declared mentally incompetent, and convicted felons without civil rights restoration, i.e.,
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Florida Senate Joint Resolution 406 and House Joint Resolution 49 proposed amending section 4 of article VI of the state constitution as it relates to the rights of convicted felons to vote.[20] ... [3] John Ellis Bush, governor of Florida, Testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Tallahassee, FL, Jan. 11,
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While a majority of states restore voting rights to convicted felons after they complete their prison terms or probation periods, ... The legal disenfranchisement of inmates and former felons has come under increased scrutiny by civil rights and criminal justice groups. According to Human Rights Watch and The Sentencing...
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